Welcome to Columbus Academy

From preschool for 3-year-olds to college prep, our transformative education invites children to explore and create in an energizing and welcoming environment. Here, we promise to inspire in our students the habit of lifelong learning. We help them develop the ability to discern truth and the motivation to serve others. Our graduates take with them the intellectual, emotional and moral strength necessary to keep their balance in a rapidly changing world.

How we build upon academics to develop the whole child.

Each day at Academy is filled with opportunities for creative thinking, hands-on learning, wellness and community building. Click through the scenes below for an overview of academics, arts, school life and more at Columbus Academy.

Learning happens everywhere at Academy. Come see us in action.

Deciding on a school for your child? A personal tour is the best way to see if a school is the right fit. Come meet the community of learners at Columbus Academy. Every inch of our 231-acre campus is designed to stimulate learning with maker spaces, interactive hallways, art studios, performance spaces, an outdoor classroom, and more.

Enthusiasm and energy spill out of the classrooms and libraries, labs and makerspaces into hallways and out into the 231-acre learning environment. It’s an environment designed for playing, observing, thinking and discovering.

Every day, we encourage our students to push themselves, play their best and support others, knowing that the benefits of physical wellness and the lessons of sport extend far beyond the classroom and fields of play.

Our student body represents more than 50 zip codes. We are united in our Viking spirit, evident in classrooms, on playing fields and stages, at tailgate parties and reunion events and throughout our community at large.

Twelve students from Columbus Academy were announced today as 2020 Semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be offered next spring.

Columbus Academy is one of the premier coeducational country day schools in the United States and continues to provide students age 3 through grade 12 from throughout Central Ohio with an exceptional academic education and a wide array of extracurricular opportunities.

Non-Discrimination Policy
Columbus Academy encourages and welcomes applications from students, faculty and staff without regard to race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, religion, physical handicap or national origin and does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, financial aid programs and school-administered extracurricular programs.